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Born in 1977 in Brussels, Laurent aka Airwave is a natural born musician. At the age of 7, he discovered and has developed since then his perfect ear, a precious gift that would later lead him to release his very first records at the age of 18, on the infamous Bonzai record label. Back then, under the influence of 80's and 90's electronica, he already knew what he wanted and fought for his right to express himself, which led him to the very first Airwave release "I want to Believe" EP. This alongside with the many other aliases and collaborations (Fire & Ice, Planisphere...), and the development of Bonzai records outside Belgium (UK, Germany, Italy and many other countries) made his career take off in 1999.

Releases were just dropping like rain on Scotland, that made him hit dance top tens and dj charts several times. Versatile in the studio, also extremely gifted as a producer, he's of that generation that breaks boundaries by doing any kind of music, whether it's house, chill-out, trance, progressive, techno. Virtually any dj has played a record of his in the last ten years, seeing him championed by the likes of Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, John 00 Fleming, Tiësto, Armin, Judge Jules and many, many more.

"Believe", his very first critically acclaimed artist album, was released at the end of 2002. A much better (and of course updated) version of it "I want to believe", that in a way "looped the loop" was released in 2003 and confirmed the successful career that he had already achieved.

But he always wants much more...

Because of all this knowledge, because of all the endless possibilities he feels he has as a musician, he put together a new concept as a performer in order to promote his 3CD album "Trilogique", a perfect definition of versatility, bringing the audience 3 different tastes of electronic music into one single package, and showing how much difference matters. As guided by the Greater God like he uses to say, he developed the Triloset, a combination of dj'ing with totally improvised keyboard parts on top of them, which led him to promote Trilosets first instead of Dj'ing, although the audience had seen him DJ worldwide since 2000, with many gigs in England, Scotland, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Canada, Netherlands, Spain, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa...

The brand new Triloset concept led him to countries he had never been before, with the likes of Turkey, Qatar, USA, Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and many others, finally having the Airwave treatment they deserved!!

Today, Laurent's discography counts no less than 500 productions, a lot of them being collaborations and remix works for the biggest superstars of nowaday's dance scene (Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Judge Jules, Markus Schulz, M.I.K.E, Yves Deruyter just to name a few). Time saw him finally running Bonzai Records with his long time partners and friends, and also expanding his knowledge of acoustics in order to develop his producer career, as a sound designer among others.

And God only knows what tomorrow will be made of for Airwave, but keep in mind that the boy does deliver whatever happens, this for ten years already, with a huge passion and a huge amount of fans pushing his back up to the top electronic musicians hall of fame.

Facts:

Official Name: Laurent Véronnez
Place / Date of Birth: Brussels, 1977 December 10th
Status: married
City of residence + Country: Brussels, Belgium
Loves: his beloved wife, people, his fans, gaming & above all MUSIC!

Is also:

Vegetarian, Healthy, Impatient, and Extremely Lunatic, but also courageous and polite and absolutely not single-minded.

1998: I Want To Believe (12")
1999: Above The Sky (12")
2000: Escape From Nowhere / Alone In The Dark (12")
2000: Innerspace (12")
2001: Save Me (12")
2002: Another Dimension (12")
2002: Sunspot (12")
2002: Believe (1 CD album)
2003: When Things Go Wrong (12")
2004: Ladyblue (Part 1) (12")
2004: Ladyblue (Part 2) (12")
2004: I Want To Believe (2 CD album)
2004: Bordeom (12")
2004: Redemption (digital single)
2005: Progressive Agressive (12")
2005: Trilogique (3CD album)
2005: Trilogique (2x 12" album sampler)
2006: The Promise I Made (12")
2007: People Just Don't Care (digital single)
2007: Trilogique (digital single)
2007: Sunday Break (digital single)
2008: Touareg
2008: Sunshine in Your Heart (Feat. Didier Likeng)
2008: Punjabi Child (original and extra mixes)
2009: Batignolles Blues (Feat. Ludovic Meyer)
2009: Urban Touareg (Feat. Angelique Arys)

Trance and Progressive Trance

LoLo (as in Melody, Why?, Sunset, 1+1= <3, and lately Trampoline
The Green Martian (Industry/ Ladies and Gentlemen)
Cape Town (with Ferry Tayle)
Fire & Ice (with DJ Fire)
V-One (Dead Cities yay)
V-Two
V-Three
Ultravibe (with M.I.K.E. aka Push)
Dj Fire (as the producer)
Cloud 69
Extreme Trax (for 3 tracks only)
Meridian

House and Progressive House/Breaks

Planisphere
Jason Mac Layne
Jake Shelton
Kelly O'Brian
Steve Rowland
Nova
Antidote
Velvet Girl
Worf
The Lounge

Harder Stuff

Attack
The Green Martian (Industry/ Ladies and Gentlemen)
Body Shock (With Dj Ghost, then Yves Deruyter, now Discontinued)
Agent Sam Fisher
Worf

Miscellaneous

Lô (French Electro-pop)

And Many, Many, Many more that I don't remember.

Highlights:

Belgium

Cherrymoon
Tropicana
Illusion
Mackenzie
La Bush
Sotto's
Illusion Reactivated @Sportpaleis Antwerp
Tomorrowland 2007 & 2008,

Netherlands

Dance Valley 2007
Mysteryland 1999
Intuition Summer Event 2008 @ Bloomingdale
Luminosity Beach 2008 @ Zandvoort
Luminosity Anniversary 2008
Matrixx, Nijmegen 2009
Ministry of Dance, 2000
Poema, Utrecht 2007
Hotel Arena, Amsterdam, 2003

UK
Room at The Top, Bathgate 2001,2002,2003
The Gallery, London 2003
Gatecrasher Events, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds, 2001,2006,2007
Godskitchen@Air, 2001, 2004
Slinky Events Bristol, B'mouth, 2001,2002
Camden Palace, London 2003
Tangled, Manchester, 2001 and 2002

Rest of The World

Club Playa, Club code, Landscape Events, Tokyo, Japan 2000, 2002, 2006
Auckland City Hall New Years Eve, New Zealand, 2003
Viva, Vola nightclubs in Toronto, 2005 and 2009
1015 San Francisco, 2005
Dopler, Bratislava 2005, 2006
Turkish Tour (Ankara, Istanbul, Eshkisehir) 2005
Finnish Tour (Tampere, Turku, Oulu, Helsinki) 2004
Eureka, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2009
Wireless Theatre Sans-fil Montréal, NYE 2007

And many, many, many, many more (Spain, Norway, France, Korea,South Africa, to name just a few)